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iaindryden1
- Dec 30, 2022
- 4 min
The only resolution
Listening to the radio as I performed the day’s last medical procedure, I learnt that a rare event was occurring in the skies above. In...
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iaindryden1
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
20x20x20 = !?!
He was adamant. “Anything goes, the Planet is suffering, look at ALL the climate disasters!” I had to think for a second, “Yes, action is...
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iaindryden1
- May 22, 2022
- 4 min
Poo-Tin = Putin
Her smile helped me escape their onslaught. Sinking in to her presence was akin to bathing in soft golden light - such a delight after...
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iaindryden1
- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
Toys+Treats=Tears
The COP carnival is long gone, its long list of cartoon characters representing humanity are but memories, the flashes of inspiration,...
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iaindryden1
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Kali Yug
Depressed? Damned? We are lemmings, but worse. Four thousand years ago, Hindu sages warned of Kali Yug, an age when materialism will over...
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iaindryden1
- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
Come on!
We stepped carefully through mud covering the roads, houses had sand bags across their doors, gates, driveways, but still the water had...
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iaindryden1
- Oct 28, 2021
- 3 min
A bright thinker
There in the Kenyan bush, he got it, although amongst teachers, it is said to be one of the hardest things to teach in geography, perhaps...
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iaindryden1
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
Tropical nights
Adrenaline is amazing stuff. Last night our house was partially flooded due to my not being fit enough to sweep autumnal leaves from our...
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iaindryden1
- Aug 28, 2021
- 2 min
Civilisation in the Sewage
Few have not been touched by the scenes at Kabul Airport, decent people from an ancient, admirably artistic and refined culture calf deep...
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iaindryden1
- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Taliban
The Taliban moving across my screen took me back over the years. I recognised the tribal features of men from the north, Asiatic, others...
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iaindryden1
- Aug 1, 2021
- 2 min
Super nasties
“I should be paying, last night he went overdrawn doing a supermarket shop,” I winked at the waiter. “I hate those supermarket bills,”...
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iaindryden1
- Jul 24, 2021
- 3 min
Resilience
I fall in to the same trap each time. When somebody who has wronged me becomes afflicted by contrition, I instantly forgive them. It is...
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iaindryden1
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
Bust or not?
The haunting notes of a bagpipe floated down our busy street, bouncing off shoppers in masks, echoing from the bright shop windows and...
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iaindryden1
- Jul 4, 2021
- 3 min
A burning need.
I have become a lazy toad. It now takes effort to lift a finger and cook, clean or any of the multiple things which go in to running a...
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iaindryden1
- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
liars, all of them....
This blog is short because I’ve a very busy week. You really can’t trust politicians. “This morning as we stood here,” the man pointed at...
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iaindryden1
- Jun 11, 2021
- 3 min
on lemmings, dogs and humans.....
Avebury’s 6,000 year old stone circle wrapped around us as we ate our picnic, yet again opening my heart. Rooks entertained us as they...
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iaindryden1
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
Meat or not...
“I despise anyone who hunts,” he glared at the LandRovers filled with men and guns. “You don’t eat meat?” I asked. “Course I do.”...
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iaindryden1
- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min
Our Princes
A man, born a prince in one land, who became a duke and was then made a prince of a currently far richer land, has died a little before...
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iaindryden1
- Nov 29, 2019
- 2 min
the original tool
From a luxury house tastefully clad in expensive wood, perched upon cliffs falling to an exciting but over-loved little fishing village,...
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